Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-01
CURRENT EVENTS.

There are 400 lawyers In London.
Snow fell in the Catskills last Sunday.
Anew city hall is to be built in Jersey City,
N J.
Church organs are occasionally made Of
paper.
1t takes SIS 100000 to keep our women in
silks every year.
Hop-pickers are in great demand all along
the western coast.
Fruit is rotting on the ground in many
places in California
The lawyers fees in the Jake Sharp bribery
trial amounted to $50, OOO
Eight war governors will attend the G. A.
T. encampment at St Louis.
The pro.essorshIp Of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition pays only 5000 year.
During the past year tie national debt OF
England was decreased s29, l99, sis.
In Alsace- Lorraine the velocipede is univer-
sally used by the foot service orierlies.
The latest eccentricity displaYed by Bosto-
mans is liking for hani-painted collins.
Type-writing and stencgraphy are taught
Young women In the high school OF Louisville,
Ky:
A quartz mill, to cost 500, 900, Is being built
at North Boise, Idaho, by an English CON-
pany.
One OF the prizes given at a recent oro-
gressive euchre party in Boston was boz uti-
ful pug dog.
Thieves are stealing cattle and slaughtering
them on the ground on the mountain ranges
10 New Mexico.
At the bicycle races In Leicester, England,
the other day, the irrational contest was
won by two Frenchmen.
A proposed New Hampshire law forbids
person to have more than ten pounds Of brook
trout in his possession at one time.
| The first ITALIAN lady who sang in public In
| England was Francesca Margherita de PEpine,
who appeared In various operas in 1893.
There Is beggsr's agency in Paris which
supplies for francs the addresses OF persons
/ who are known to give freely to mendcantS
! G.. p Wright, OF Baltimore, has been the
! father of twenty-eight children, twentY-three
! of whom are living. The Youngest child Is
weeks old.
A recent estimate places the population o
india 253, ,S9l, ,S2L There are ten million acres
of arabic land that have not been touched b!
the pillow.
The destruction of human life BY tigers wa
greater last year than ever before. One o
these beasts is said to have killed lS3 person
in three years
Buffalo malitiamen are disguised becaus
Gov. Hill did not select one Of the regiment
of that city to represent the state at the Phila
delphia constitutional centennial
Mrs. Horace Lewis, Of Ketchum, Idaho, hs
a Young antelope for pet. The creature 70
lows its mistress at all times, even going int
the kitchen and watching the cooking.
Cora Miller, aged 81 years, pretty miss
Bucyrus, O., committed suicide one day n
Gently because her lover failed to keep an er
gagement to escort her to a military encamI
ment
An attempt was made In Madrid recent
by a party Of Englishmen TO get up boxin
match, but the authorities would not allow I
Bull-fghts are perfectly proper, but priz
fghts-Oh hesyensl
Philadelphia has a new delicacy in the shaF
of baked tomatoes stuffed with crab meat, an
a sandwich Of one slice Of large ripe jui1
tomato, with a layer OF crab meat cooke
creole style, is also much appreciated
A Mexican paper saws the condition OF II
very poor in the City Of Mexico is mo
lamentable. Neither Naples nor Constantnop
in their lowest quarters can show wor
saualor or more saddening spectaciea
There is one murderer In Jackson, Fla, wi
deserves an acquittal at his trial, and his nan
is James Cook One day last week he becau
so exasperated over the continued poundlr
! of piano that he took his shotgun and kiii'
the player, Hoyt by name.
70 A colored woman IN Sunnysde, Ga,
!. two Children boy and girl. THE girl
named Il VIII Arise and Go to My Father
but calls her ''IWiller," for short The boy
name is 'Only Aegotten Son, in Whom
Well Pleased" but he is called Only"
v A man was riding on the footboard Of
n switch engine, near Arkansas City, Ark, WI
:, COW came out of the weeds on the track j.
ahead Of the engine, and before the rid
e could change his position bis limbs We
r crushed between the engine and the COW.
4 In Mount Sterling. KY, lives man who
the victim of peculiar affiiction. Last win
he. Howard Williamson, bruised his LETT
: by falling down on a slippery sidewalk. Sc
? after ossfication set In, and the leg Is now
n hard as stone and looks as if cut from m
~ bic.
; A curious landslip occurred on the Ian
~ shire and Yorkshire railway not long ago.
y passenger train was passing Spring V
20 station when the track and platform sunk
=, feet. the train sinking and rising like yes
10 on the waves. No injury TO passengers
q suited.
,e Two convicts, who were acting as engin
n and fireman of a steam yacht employed
NJ officials of the Kingston (Ont) penitentis
N made of with the yacht after landing
o. officers, on Tuesday, and, in spite of vo
q from the guards on shore, steamed into
4. eign waters
Id When 2 years old son OF Mr.. Rend,
ID Greenbush, n. Y, showed great desire fc
20 p'pe and when one day his father gave 4
w him. he pulled away as happily as an
m veteran. From that time on he has had
" craving for tobacco fully satisfied. He
III never been without his pipe, and now, at
q. age of IL, he is one Of the strongest
a. healthiest youths In his district
II The Horticultural society Of New Jersey
ns issued q warning of danger to the pu
.ir from the approaching influx Of unripe grs
Mt upon the market. This refers particular
be the Ives grape, which colors by Aug. 20, b.
Is not ripe till Sept 15 To secure the hlt
Of